Reply to Being An Older FTM

Forum Index » General Parenting Discussion

Reply to "Being An Older FTM"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like on this board anyone who had a kid before they were 30 are bashed since there's a large contingent of older moms here. [/quote]

+1 I had my first baby at 30 and basically felt like a teen mom around here. It’s funny how many of the mom friends I’ve now made (through sports, school, neighborhood kids, etc.) who have kids similar ages to mine are 5-8 or even more years older than me. A good friend of mine had her kids at 39 and 41.

You are in good company in being an older mom in this area and will likely benefit from lots of hand-me-downs and advice from other moms. Whereas I was the first in my friend group to become a mom. It was actually lonely at times when my friends were still going to bottomless brunches, taking amazing vacations, etc. and I was leaking breastmilk, up all night with a baby, or dealing with potty training. There was no one around to gift me their old pack n play or warn me that breastfeeding would be difficult. I legit went into motherhood completely naive and without a support group.

At your age I imagine you have a better network of moms and you’ve likely gotten the travel/party bug out of your system. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics